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Dossier #230 · GRanD 2455

Salto Grande

🇦🇷Argentina / Uruguay · Uruguay River · De la Plata Basin · near Concordia

Built 1979 · Dam · data quality: Fair

HydroelectricityWater supplyRecreation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
65 m
Crest length
3,000 m
Reservoir capacity
5.5 km³
Reservoir area
533 km²
Average depth
10.3 m
Catchment
242,476 km²
Avg discharge
5,924,032 L/s
Elevation
31 masl
Degree of regulation
2.9 %

Notes

Built 1979

Provenance

Record 230 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -31.2715, -57.9429.